Rifle, Colorado
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 123 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5140-4255-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The City of Rifle is a Home Rule Municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 6,769 at the 2000 census. Rifle is a regional center of the cattle ranching industry located along Interstate 70 and the Colorado River just east of the Roan Cliffs, which dominate the western skyline of the town. The town was founded in 1881 by Abram Mayfield, and was incorporated in 1904 along Rifle Creek, near its mouth on the Colorado. Rife Creek is named for an incident involving white trappers in the late 19th century. According to local lore, one of the trappers accidentally left his rifle along the creek, giving it its name. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не...